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Can Yellen Keep The Boom Going?
Via Brendan Brown of The Mises Institute, Yellen, like notorious previous Fed chiefs including Strong, Martin, and Greenspan, can now claim success in having prolonged and strengthened an asset price...
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Buckle Up, the Bank of Japan Has Blown Up the Markets (Again)
If you have been long US stocks since Election night, you have been a Yen bear and nothing else. Last September the Bank of Japan announced a new policy of targeting a 0% yield on its 10-Year Japanese...
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Global Stocks Slide, S&P Futures Tumble Below 50DMA As “Trump Trade” Collapses
Global stocks are lower across the board to start the week, as concerns about Trump’s administration to pull off a material tax reform plan finally emerge, pressuring S&P futures some 20 points...
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Breslow’s Advice To Those Traders “Who Need To Be Miserable To Be Happy”
Presenting yout latest dose of early morning misery, or perhaps joy, from Richard Breslow, a former FX trader and fund manager who writes for Bloomberg Analysts Who Need to Be Miserable to Be Happy I...
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Oil Fireworks Unsettle Global Markets Ahead Of Payrolls Report
With all eyes on crude, following last night’s mini flash crash which sent WTI lower by 3% from just above $45 to under $43 in under 10 minutes, equity markets, generally quiet overnight, have taken on...
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Déjà Vu In The USD Bull Market?
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at What in God’s name is happening? It’s not a high. It’s a record high. Sweet mother of Mary… As we can see from the above chart courtesy of the FT, emerging markets...
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A Bearish Positive Carry Trade?
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, The Eurostoxx outperformance of the past month has garnered a lot of attention, but there is another similar trade many investors are missing. Not...
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“The Swarm Effect”: Every Trader Today Has Just Two Choices
Few have dedicated as much time and effort into explaining the behavioral aspects of trading in a time of central planning (or “metastability“) as Deutsche Bank’s whimsical derivatives-philosopher,...
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FX Weekly Preview: Looking For A Rise In Vol As The Fed Finally Makes Their...
Submitted by Rajan Dhall MSTA and Shant Movsesian from fxdailyterminal.com In the absence of key economic data, we tend to see heightened levels of containment in the FX markets, where the heavy...
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LFIN Crashes After-Hours When CEO Admits “We Don’t Deserve This Market Cap”
Update: Much to his credit, Venkat Meenavalli, the CEO of LongFin ventured onto CNBC's FastMoney tonight to explain the exponential rise and somewhat shady acquisition strategy of his company. Amid an...
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